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单词 wounding
释义

wounding

/ˈwuːndɪŋ /
adjective
1Causing physical injury: crossbows and deadly wounding darts...
  • The military response was swift and wounding.
  • The initial corporeal silence of the wound, the muted mark of the sword's wounding penetration, is not alone sufficient-there cannot be, as Derrida writes of Artaud, "stigmata … substituted for the text".
  • On the way he staged a wounding attack on himself.
1.1Causing harm to a person’s feelings or reputation: a wounding description of their mother most wounding to her was the loss of her independence...
  • He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down.
  • She is surprised by the intelligence into a wounding tactlessness.
  • He is more correct than he may have imagined, his words betraying an even more wounding significance.

Derivatives

woundingly

/ˈwuːndɪŋli / adverb
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